The purpose of this study was to investigate maternal vocabulary use during picture book reading and toy play. Twenty 17-24 month old infants and their mothers participated in this study. Their conversations were audiotaped in two contexts. The total ...
The purpose of this study was to investigate maternal vocabulary use during picture book reading and toy play. Twenty 17-24 month old infants and their mothers participated in this study. Their conversations were audiotaped in two contexts. The total number of word tokens and the number of word types in maternal linguistic inputs were categorized into 7 lexical categories of Korean grammar.
The results were as follows.
First, the number of word tokens in maternal input during both picture book reading and toy play was large in order of nouns, verbs, pronouns, adverbs, adjectives, pre-nouns, and numerals. In word type analysis, nouns were the largest word category, followed by, in order, verbs, adverbs, adjectives, pronouns, pre-nouns, and numerals. Second, context effects in token analysis indicated that mothers provides greater proportions of nouns in a book reading context. In type analysis, whereas mothers used a greater proportion of noun types in a book reading context, they provided more pronouns, adjectives, and adverbs in a toy play context.